Here's a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation. A young man has at last plucked up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinner. She has accepted his invitation and he is overjoyed. He is determined to take her to the best restaurant in town, even if it means that he will have to live on memories and hopes during the month to come. When they get to the restaurant, he discovers that this beautiful creature is on a diet. She mustn’t eat this and she mustn't drink that. Oh, but of course, she doesn't want to spoil his enjoyment. Let him by all means eat as much fattening food as he wants: it’s the surest way to an early grave. They spend a truly memorable evening together and never see each other again.

What a miserable lot dieters are! You can always recognize them from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their time turning their noses up at food. They are forever consulting calorie charts; gazing at themselves in mirrors; and leaping on to weighing-machines in the bathroom. They spend a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips, bigger tummies（肚子） and double chins. Some declare all-out war on FAT. Mere dieting is not enough. They exhaust themselves doing exercises, sweating in sauna baths, being massaged by weird machines. The really wealthy pay vast sums for “health cures”. For two weeks they can enter a nature clinic and be starved to death for a hundred dollars a week. Don’t think it’s only the middle-aged who go in for these fashions either. Many of these bright young things you see are living on nothing but air, water and the goodwill of God.

Dieters undertake to starve themselves of their own free will; so why are they so miserable? Well, for one thing, they’re always hungry. You can't be hungry and happy at the same time. All the horrible foods they eat leave them permanently dissatisfied. “Wonderfood is a complete food”, the advertisement says. “Just dissolve(溶解) a teaspoonful in water…”. A complete food it may be, but not quite as complete as a juicy steak. And, of course, they’re always miserable because they feel so guilty. Hunger just proves too much for them and in the end they may rush to eat five huge cream cakes at a time. And who can blame them? At least three times a day they are exposed to temptation. What torture（折磨） it is always watching others swallowing piles of mouth-watering food while you only have a water biscuit and sip unsweetened lemon juice!

What’s all this torture for? Saintly people keep themselves away from food to achieve a state of grace. Unsaintly people do so to achieve a state of misery. It will be a great day when all the dieters in the world abandon their slimming courses; when they hold out their plates and demand second helpings!

41.   Which of the following would the writer most probably agree with?

A. New ways of controlling weight are needed.   B. We should all have second helpings and grow fat.

C. Many diseases are connected with overweight.       D. Trying to be slim is not an excuse for suffering.

42. How did the boy and the girl most probably feel after the night?

A. Excited.                   B. Awkward.                 C. Nervous.                  D. Hurt.

43.   According to the writer, which of the following are all typical dieters?

① weighs himself three times a day     ② eats five huge cream cakes at a time

③ always checks calorie charts          ④ has expensive yet nutritious meals every week

⑤ has big tummies and double chins   ⑥ takes sauna baths
 
 


A. ① ② ③                  B. ② ④ ⑤                   C. ① ③ ⑥                  D. ③ ④ ⑥

44. Why might the boy have to live on memories and hopes during the month to come (Paragraph 1)？

       A. He knew they would have a wonderful night.

       B. He knew there’s no hope of seeing the girl again.

C. He knew they would meet again and share the good memories.

D. He knew he would have no living expense for the next month.

45.   What is the writer’s attitude towards diet?

A. Supportive .       　　       B. Critical.                    C. Doubtful.          D. Uninterested.

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